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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *enðeros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dʰér-o-s, from *h₁n̥dʰér. Cognate with English under, Sanskrit अधर (ádhara). *ð > f is irregular in word-internal position (**inderus would be expected; compare fundus) and is explained either as (Faliscan) dialectal influence or by assuming metanalysis as a compound with in.
Pronunciation
Adjective
īnferus (feminine īnfera, neuter īnferum, comparative īnferior, superlative īnfimus or īmus); first/second-declension adjective
- low
- (in the masculine plural) the souls of the dead
- (in the neuter plural) the netherworld, the underworld, Hell
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “inferus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inferus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inferus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the gods of the upper, lower world: superi; inferi
- (ambiguous) the world below: inferi (Orcus and Tartarus only poetical)
- (ambiguous) to descend to the world below: ad inferos descendere
- (ambiguous) to be in the lower world: apud inferos esse
- (ambiguous) to summon some one from the dead: aliquem ab inferis or a mortuis evocare, excitare (passive ab inferis exsistere)